Controls & Machine Components

Motion controllers

Ormec's (Rochester, NY) new Orion(TM) motion controller family includes the 586/133MHz processor. This processor offers a 25% speed increase and enables Ormec customers to upgrade to a more industrial PC-based platform.

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Productivity trends

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute has released the 1997 Packaging Productivity Trends Indicator. The 200-page report features analyses, graphs, charts and detailed findings.

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Controls & Machine Components

Labeling system

Quadrel Labeling's (Mentor, OH) ModuLine labeling system has been redesigned with heavier duty components, an 8" conveyor and no-tool changeover capabilities.

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Flexible packaging

High-speed pouching machine

The PK3000 is a new horizontal form/fill/seal continuous-web pouch machine from R.A. Jones (Cincinnati, OH). The system is 40% smaller than Jones' PK4000.

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Controls & Machine Components

Labels catalog

The 1997 Labels Catalog, a 62-page full-line catalog, is being offered by Lancer Label (Omaha, NE). It features the company's standard offering of labels and label applications as well as new stocks for labels on rolls and laser/ ink-jet labels, NameDropper(TM) designs, phone and address shapes to help promote Internet addresses, and low quantity, digitally printed durable decals.

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Controls & Machine Components

Software-based motion control

Pacific Scientific (Rockford, IL) has released what it says is the first motion-control solution based entirely on software and PC hardware, operating systems and network cards.

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Controls & Machine Components

Clear vials

Kerr (Lancaster, PA) has introduced ScriptVision(TM) PP amber vials for prescription tablets. In sizes from 6 to 60 drams, they offer up to 30% greater transmission of light visible to the naked eye than comparable vials, says Kerr.

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Controls & Machine Components

Case erector/bottom sealer

Sekisui TA (Garden Grove, CA) has introduced the STA-CF980 Series, a uniform case erector and bottom taper. This automated system takes cartons from a vertical magazine and folds and tapes the bottom flaps.

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Controls & Machine Components

Slat filler

The Model 40-24 slat filler has a 100% accuracy rate, says manufacturer DT Industries, Merrill Div. (Bristol, PA). With 100-ct tablets, it can reach speeds to 120 bottles/min.

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Controls & Machine Components

Selection software

Matched Performance(TM) Selection Software on CD-ROM from Baldor Electric (Fort Smith, AK) assists the user in selecting the correct motor and control.

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Controls & Machine Components

Ink-jet printer

Overture ES is a new ink-jet printing system from Marsh (Belleville, IL) capable of controlling one or two high-resolution printheads. It produces text, graphics and most bar-code symbologies at speeds to 250'/min, with a 99.9% read rate.

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Labels

Labeler makes the grade

Pharmaceuticals maker Organon, Inc. relied on its equipment vendor to devise a complete validation procedure for its new labeler before it hit the production floor.

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Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Auger filler takes on challenging cornmeal

DISA's 60ꯠ-sq' facility in Cali, Colombia, was almost four years old before one of its packaging lines became fully operational. The division of food giant CPC Intl., discovered that Maizena, a family of corn-flour-based mixes for puddings, cakes, and beverages, was very difficult to fill accurately.

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